SpaceX salutes Starlink Group 6-69 as smallsats and Koreasat-6A each soar on Veterans Day – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-11-11 00:00
SpaceX is targeting Monday, November 11 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 4:02 p.m. ET. A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch on X@SpaceX.
SES under considerable market pressure, within hours from high to ‘all time low’ – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-11-11 00:00
Satellite operator SES present its latest set of numbers. SES suffered the ignomany of falling to a 52-week ‘all time low’ of just €3.44. SES CEO Adel Al-Salah had presented the results and the company’s forecasts were largely endorsed.
SpaceX launches Koreasat-6A on Veterans Day to improve items including the GPS position error from current 15-33 meter to 1.0-1.6 – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-11-11 00:00
SpaceX was successful in launching the 3.9-ton (3.5 metric tons) Koreasat-6A, on Monday, November 11, Veterans Day, at 12:25 PM EST. The Koreasat 6A spacecraft, built by Thales Alenia Space, will have 20 transponders for fixed satellite services and six for TV broadcasting to replace the Koreasat 6 launched in 2010. This will be the 23rd flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25 and 12 Starlink missions.
600th rocket launched from Esrange – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-11-11 00:00
The 600th suborbital rocket, MAPHEUS-15, was launched from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna. The science rocket reached an altitude of 309 km carrying a payload containing 21 different experiments. The payload featured a wide range of scientific disciplines that were conducted during 7 minutes of microgravity.
Forrester’s Digest: Could Musk’s influence extend to FCC authorization? – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-11-11 00:00
Scotiabank says that over the past five months, Elon Musk posted more than 80 pro-Trump messages on X. Musk participated in at least 11 Trump rallies. President-elect Trump has since cited Musk as a ‘great man’ and is reportedly planning to give Musk control of a ‘government efficiency commission’
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries
Magnetospheres serve as protective bubbles around planets (including Earth) with magnetic cores and magnetic fields. Learning more about how magnetospheres work is important for understanding our own planet, as well as those in seldom-visited corners of our solar system and beyond. Voyager 2, now in interstellar space, is almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth.
Perseverance faces challenges climbing to crater rim as sample tube supply dwindles
Original Publication Date: 2024-11-10 21:19
Perseverance is expected to crest over the crater rim in early December. The crater rim terrain has been found to be loosely packed dust and sand with thin and brittle crusts. On many days, Perseverance has only covered half the distance it would’ve covered on non-slippery terrain.